editor-in-chief matt STEWART production manager/graphics thomas LLOYD copy editor catherine SWEET news editor laura FANNING entertainment editor brodie MACRAE sports editor alex FIELD photographer brad DEIGHAN reporters : mari¢éve MACGREGOR julie VEINOT advertising manager natasha MACKINNON distribution manager lennie MacPHERSON contributers johnathan SMITH, michelle TROWS- DALE, patricia McPHAIL, kathleen DEERING, cat WILLCOCK, scott FLEMMING, danny FISHER, will PATE the UPEI Student Union. 2,000 copies of The Cadre are printed 10 times per semes- ter. There are meetings open to anyone Mondays at 4:30 in room 213 in the W.A.Murphy Student Centre. The dead- line for submissions is Thursday at mid- night. The opinions expressed within The Cadre do not necessarily represent the views of UPEI or the UPEI Student Union Inc. The Cadre is a full member of Canadian. University Press (CUP). The Cadre is represented by Campus Plus for multi-market advertising. Campus Plus can be reached at 1-800-265-5372. The Cadre UPEI 550 University Ave. Charlottetown PE COA 1T0O Tel: 566-0629 Fax: 566-0979 Ads: cadread@yahoo.com Letters to the editor: mjstewart@upei.ca www.upei.ca/~cadre The Cadre is the official newspaper of ; Hold on not really being fair. one of them turned ni web site: www.untitled.com By: Brodie MacRAE Check out this site : www.unti- tled.com. What's on it? I haven't a clue. It's a members only sight that gives absolutely no indication as to what its content might be. How do you become a member? I quote: "Apply by submitting all required information to membership@untitled.com. You should already know what informa- tion is needed. If you don't - please do not try, or ask. Thank you." What the hell is that? Some secretive society in which not only mem- bership, but knowledge of its activities grows by invitation only? Kind of like try- ing to fit in with the cool crowd in junior high, or with Islanders in general when you're from "away." I found a site that has a poll as to what readers think its content might be (www.satanosphere.com). Options includ- - ed a secret government agency, George W. Bush's poetry and your virginity. We here at the Cadre are offering _ for the most clever theory some lousy prize to be decided upon later submitted to us as to what this site is all about by the next issue. We will offer a less lousy prize to anyone who untangles the mystery for us, but we don't expect that to ge so why bother planning for it? - Email your theories to brodie_ m@hotmail.com. Remember, you — miss out on all the lousy prizes for all the crazed — io you don'ts — mit. Book: Do Andou Dream of Electric Sheep? Author: Philip K. Dick — By: Jonathan Smith — _ First published in 1969, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was the book that inspired the movie Bladerunner. _ The story deals with a bounty hunter in pursuit of a group of renegade androids — who are able to pass themselves off as oo human : nee a hard- page 2 such as what does it mean to be human? Are emotions what separates man from intelligent machine? What if the machine could duplicate those same emotions? A short, but worthwhile read. Book: Contact Author: Carl Sagan — By: Jonathan Smith I can hear the groans already, but hear me out. Though the movie was met with less than spectacular box office suc- cess, the novel upon which it was based _ ~ nevertheless shines as a great sci-fi novel __ stuffed with lots of philosophical tidbits. _ The renowned and unfortunately deceased astronomer Carl Sagan has left us with a story about a young scientist who has _ voted her life to detecting and decoding signals from space and 1 the event actually —